絶

discontinue, sever, cut off, abstain, interrupt, suppress, be beyond, without match, peerless, unparalleled

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ゼツ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

た.えるた.つた.やす

Stroke Order

12 / 12

Information

Grade:5

Strokes:12

JLPT:N3

Frequency:784

Vocabulary

ゼツ

Word	Reading	Meaning
気絶	キゼツ	faint; fainting; losing consciousness
拒絶	キョゼツ	refusal; rejection
根絶	コンゼツ	eradication; extermination; rooting out; stamping out; getting rid of
絶縁	ゼツエン	breaking off relations (with); severing one's connections (with); breaking with (e.g. one's past); insulation (electrical or thermal); isolation
絶大	ゼツダイ	tremendous; immense; enormous; colossal; stupendous; huge

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
拒絶反応	きょぜつはんのう	(transplant) rejection; strong reaction (against)
絶えず	たえず	constantly; always; continually; steadily
絶える	たえる	to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued; to be cut off
絶え間なく	たえまなく	incessantly; without a pause
絶句	ぜっく	being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

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